You might still find these remotes in stock or on a resale site, but no new models are being manufactured. The Harmony Companion, the Harmony 665, and the Harmony Elite were former picks in this guide, but Harmony’s parent company, Logitech, discontinued the entire line. It is rare to find a universal remote that offers built-in voice control. Make sure that you know how all of your devices are controlled before buying a universal remote. Some devices are controlled via radio frequency (RF) or Wi-Fi. But a growing number of devices, especially streaming media boxes, are controlled via Bluetooth. It’s common for lower-priced universal remotes to work only with IR devices. Many AV devices still rely on infrared (IR) control, in which you must point the remote’s IR transmitter directly at the device’s IR receiver. The more a remote costs, the more flexibility it should have to control different kinds of devices.For instance, instead of having to push separate buttons to turn on your TV, switch HDMI inputs, power on your AV receiver, change inputs there, turn on your Blu-ray player, and-finally-start your movie, you can reduce all of that to one push of a single activity button. Activity buttons-such as “watch TV’ or “listen to music”-combine multiple actions into one button press (officially called a macro) and let you control multiple devices at the same time. If you can’t teach the universal remote specific commands from your device remotes, or reprogram the buttons to do different things, the remote is far less likely to be capable of doing everything you need it to.
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